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Sperner’s lemma and Tucker’s lemma
In their article "A Borsuk-Ulam Equivalent that Directly Implies Sperner's Lemma" (American Mathematical Monthly, April 2013), Nyman and Su write "[W]e are unaware of a direct proo …
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Why is it that Wikipedia has no coverage of Quantum stochastic calculus [closed]
Why is there no coverage in wikipedia on Quantum stochastic calculus.
The biographies of mathematicians like KR Parthasarathy, Robin Lyth Hudson, VP Belavkin, and others. Is it no …
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Langlands product
In his 'Märchen' Langlands considers for a local field $F$ a certain abelian category $\Pi(F)$ whose objects are given by isomorphisms classes of irreducible admissible representat …
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Why do rigid spaces have “not enough points”?
In Brian Conrad's notes
here for the 2007 Arizona winter school, bottom of p18, he says that there is an affinoid rigid-analytic space and a sheaf of abelian groups on it equipped …
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Smallest containing simplex
Let $V_n$ be the least real number such that for every convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with hypervolume $1$ there is a containing simplex with hypervolume $V_n$.
What is known abou …
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8 queens puzzle
In the 8 queen puzzle, if we use the incremental approach, i.e. put the queen one by one on the board, the number of possible sequences would be 2057. How is that number calculated …
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Chern Character of a Symmetric Power
Simple question: I was trying to find a formula for the Chern character $ch(S^mE)$ in terms of $ch(E)$ but couldn't find a reference too easily. It can be worked out using symmetri …
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General Orthogonal Group and its properties
I know that exist a Lie Group Called the Orthogonal Group $O(n)$.
That correspond to all matrix of $n \times n$ in the real numbers such that the columns are a orthogonal basis for …
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Taylor’s series for Lie groups
Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two (matrix) Lie groups, with $L(G_1)$ and $L(G_2)$ their respective Lie algebras.
I am interested to know if there is a well developed theory to approximat …
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enumerative Gromov-Witten invariants
Assume that $\mathcal{M}_{g,n}(X,A)$ is irreducible and of the expected dimension.
Are the corresponding primary [i.e. no $\psi$ classes] Gromov-Witten invariants
enumerative? How …
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Motivation for Frankl’s conjecture?
Frankl's conjecture, open since 1979, says that if $F$ is a union-closed family of subsets of $X$, then there is some $x \in X$ such that $x$ appears in at least half the sets in $ …
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identity for number of monomials
Fix a positive integer $d \geq 2$, and let $n,k$ be natural numbers with $k \leq n$.
Let $b(n,k)$ denote the number of monomials of degree $kd-(n+1)$ in $n+1$ variables $x_0,\ldo …
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Equivariant $K$-theory, singular vectors, and flag manifolds
For a homogeneous space $M = G/B$, with $G$ a (complex) semi-simple Lie group, it is very well-known that equivariant vector bundles $E$ over $B$ correspond to representations $(V_ …
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Basic results in bounded geometry
I'm doing analysis (dynamical systems) in the context of Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry and I find myself reproving quite a few standard results/tools from standard diffe …
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Discretizing a cosine function?
I'd like to start by noting that for some fixed natural $N$ basis functions for my system will be generated by $f(k,x)$ as defined and explained here or in numerous other sources:
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